Last week, Andreas Schilling, a technology journalist based in Germany, posted a thermal image on X that may burn Nvidia's reputation among customers as bad as the RTX 5090 graphics card could burn anyone who touches it.
Schilling, an editor at Hardware Luxx, shared thermal images of an Inno3D GeForce RTX 5090 Frostbite and his PC's PSU (power supply unit). The images show extreme hot spots where the power cable connected to the GPU and PSU. According to Schilling's readings, those hotspots reached more than 150 degrees Celsius (300 degrees Fahrenheit) — hot enough to cause third-degree burns. Sites worldwide reported on the image.
